Trip Essay

who just did what others told me to do, But at the beginning of my junior year my whole school was about to embark on a service trip, I was going to treat it like I had the year before, let my fellow students take the lead and I’ll just help out. I ended up taking the lead of my group and for the first time learning about what it means to be a leader. Before the trip there was a lot of preparation, we where going to visit and teach at a school 2 hours away in Shanghai. Our large group split…

Experience #1- One of the most major transitions I faced thought my life was when I first came to Canada with my family. We were very new and we had no idea what was going on. I was only nine years old. When we first arrived in Canada, the environment, the people, the laws and many more were very new to us. It was as if we had to start all over again in life. For us it was basically the starting point to another life in a country that we knew nothing about. But for us this starting point would…

From the green hillsides to the bright blue ocean, Jamaica is a luscious and beautiful country. However, interspersed throughout the island are impoverished communities set apart from the large homes and resorts. I took all of this in as I got the unique opportunity to travel to Jamaica to volunteer in a medicine and healthcare program. Each morning, I looked out the window of the taxi to see people walking to work in their polo shirts and long pants in the 90 degree weather, or stray dogs…

Any field trip that begins with a discussion of modesty in a mosque and concludes with a belly dance routine deserves analytical attention in order to connect such contrasting activities. Islam, while maintaining many conservative traditions, has experienced the influence of American culture demonstrated by modern clubs and restaurants that contain attractions like female dancers and hookah bars. With Dr. Tatum’s comical dance and the superb humus in mind, I still enjoyed watching Muslims…

Physical labor is not my forté. I’m the embodiment of the stereotypical female - in no way am I even remotely strong or capable of manual labor. So you can imagine how useful I was going to be on a weeklong mission trip in Kentucky fixing a house. An actual, real-life house. There was no way I was going to be any help at all, but I wanted to try...sort of. Part of me wanted to go but another part of me really, really did not. I do not enjoy working, nor do I like traveling outside of…

When thinking back to my past, my favorite memory is my trip to Puerto Rico. I got to travel with some of my close friends and really cool adults. We were in Puerto Rico for seven days, and every single day I got to discover the culture and learn something new about the island and the people living on it. We were able to explore the nature there, try Puerto Rican foods, speak in Spanish, and tour historical sites. We left at four in the morning to board our plane. When we arrived on the island,…

Last summer my church and I went on a Mission Trip to Waterloo, Iowa. The Mission Trip took place from July 19, 2015-July 25, 2015. This was my first ever Mission Trip and I was glad that my dad went along to in order to mentor me on what to do and when I was supposed to do it. We went on this Mission Trip to do service work for those in need outside of our normal comfort zone here in Illinois. The residents that we were to help that week were Rita and Dan. Rita was old and had lots of trouble…

It was May, 24,2006, and it was my remaining time in high school so for our senior class trip we get to go to Java Indonesia. I am so excited I will be in a different state with my three best friends and my boyfriend for a whole 2 weeks this is going to be the best trip of my life I got to school and everyone was so excited about the trip I walked into my first period and there where was my best friend Mikayla sitting there on her phone like always. I sit down next to her and the teacher told…

The documentary film, The Magic Trip portrays the 1960’s , it shows a “black and white picket fence world just stuck in the 50’s” It also shows the road trip that ultimately launched the hippie era. The hippie subculture, which began as a youth movement in the United States during the early 1960s and then developed around the world exploded in the 1960s. It allowed for an artistic outlet for those who didn’t comply with the norms of society. “Hippies” with their crazy colored clothing and…

Texas, my outlook on life tended to lack much diversity. Middle class citizens were the majority. Poverty was never an issue that was discussed very much among my peers. Though during the Summer of 2015, I had the rare opportunity to go on a mission trip to the country of Ecuador in South America. The entirety of my experience there completely changed my perspective on life. The ways of living and the wealth of society varies greatly on the nation that one is living in. A great number of…